Category Archives: CALI Spotlight

Posts by CALI staffers. Thoughts, opinions, and ideas about technology and innovation in legal education.

CALI’s A2J Author platform helps Albany Law School Launch Innovative Web-Based Tool

Posted on February 11, 2019 by scottlee

Albany Law School Launches Innovative Web-Based Tool to Assist Lawyers Serving Nonprofits Albany, N.Y.—Albany Law School announced today that it has released a suite of web-based programs to help lawyers better and more efficiently serve their nonprofit clients. Through the … Continue reading →

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Webinar: Using an open formative assessment platform for legal education

Posted on January 18, 2019 by scottlee

Join us for a complete walkthrough of the CALI QuizWright® system. We’ll show you how to create simple formative assessments that you can use in class to gauge where your students are. This demonstration will begin with the creation of … Continue reading →

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The Center for Computer-Assisted Legal Instruction (CALI) Welcomes Dean Mary Lu Bilek of CUNY School of Law to the Board of Directors 

Posted on January 5, 2019 by scottlee

At its Annual Membership Meeting on Thursday, January 3, 2019, the Center for Computer-Assisted Legal Instruction (CALI) Board of Directors appointed Dean Mary Lu Bilek to fill the vacancy of outgoing Board Member Professor Patrick Wiseman from George State University … Continue reading →

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CALIcon19 is now accepting session proposals

Posted on December 17, 2018 by scottlee

The CALIcon19 theme is… PARADIGM SHIFT “A fundamental change in an individual’s or a society’s view of how things work in the world.” The way we think about legal education is changing and not just at the edges.  The crash … Continue reading →

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The Center for Computer-Assisted Legal Instruction/CALI (a non-profit consortium of US Law Schools) announces a new, free website service… a2j.org and a2jauthor.org … for courts, law schools, non-profits and lawyers to create expert systems for pro se litigants to address the access to justice gap.

Posted on December 11, 2018 by scottlee

For Immediate Release Chicago, IL – December 10, 2018 – Today we announce the launch of a2j.org and a2jauthor.org. The “a2j” stands for Access To Justice. a2j.org is a brand new website where anyone in the world can host A2J … Continue reading →

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Nominations for CALI Board is Open

Posted on October 2, 2018 by scottlee

Help us shape the future of Legal Education The Center for Computer-Assisted Legal Instruction (CALI) is seeking nominations of qualified and enthusiastic individuals from the legal education community to fill vacant positions on its Board of Directors.  If you or … Continue reading →

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8 Reasons You Should Assign CALI Lessons to Your Students

Posted on September 17, 2018 by John Mayer

8 Reasons You Should Assign CALI Lessons to Your Students   If you teach in a US law school, you should be looking at CALI Lessons and assigning them to your students. -1- CALI Lessons are another way to learn … Continue reading →

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QuizWright gets a Question Bank

Posted on July 16, 2018 by Elmer Masters

We’ve added a Question Bank feature to CALI QuizWright®, our formative assessment system. The new feature uses multiple choice questions selected from CALI Contracts Lessons. The 150+ contracts questions are available to everyone who uses QuizWright. Over the course of … Continue reading →

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The Race to the Bottom and How it Might Help Access to Justice

Posted on April 20, 2018 by John Mayer

I just ran across another legal tech startup that is going to automate a common legal problem space and sell access to their web-based questionnaire for $29.95 or some such. It’s potentially a huge market because millions of people must … Continue reading →

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CALI Announces Katherine Alteneder, Executive Director at Self-Represented Litigation Network, as the CALIcon18 Conference Keynote Speaker

Posted on April 19, 2018 by scottlee

Keynote Session:  How Do Lawyers Get Paid If Access to Justice is Free? KATHERINE ALTENEDER Executive Director at Self-Represented Litigation Network Keynote Session Description: The rise of the self-represented litigant has disrupted the civil justice system. Courts no longer rely … Continue reading →

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